For Sociology
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For Sociology

Legacies and Prospects

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

For Sociology

Legacies and Prospects

About this book

First published in 2001. For Sociology is not the dogmatic stand of a single discipline against the tide of interdisciplinarity. Rather it is an attempt to explore the nature of sociological argument and the relationship of sociology both to the natural sciences and other social sciences, as well as assessing its role in understanding the complexities of the contemporary world.

The essays in the collection were all presented at the British Sociological Association's annual conference in 1999, which sought to reassess sociology thirty years on from Alvin Gouldner's famous challenge to the discipline. Through reflection on the continuities and discontinuities in the discipline, and an exploration of some of the key themes and issues of our time, the writers represented here pose new challenges to the sociological imagination.

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Information

Publisher
sociologypress
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781003810087
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Overview for Sociology: Legacies and Prospects
  8. 1 The new positivity
  9. 2 Sociology and its audience(s): changing perceptions of sociological argument
  10. 3 For sociology, Gouldner's and ours
  11. 4 For postdisciplinary studies: sociology and the curse of disciplinary parochialism and imperialism
  12. 5 For a sociological feminism
  13. 6 Bourdieu and methodological polytheism: taking sociology forward in the twenty-first century
  14. 7 Work and its narratives
  15. 8 Sociology and the Third Way
  16. 9 Memory, violence and identity
  17. 10 Science, technology and the relevance of sociology
  18. 11 The coming biological challenge to social theory and practice
  19. 12 Putting sociology on the bioethics map
  20. Notes on contributors